Ash Maurya: Stop Wasting Time on Unviable Business Ideas. Too many entrepreneurs prematurely rush to launch their product, join an incubator/accelerator, or hit the pitching circuit only to realize months (or years) later that they were chasing too small an idea (more)

Ash Maurya has a series of lessons on Continuous Innovation Mindsets. (more)

Ash Maurya on Lean Startup Coaching Meta-Skills: Welcome to Coaching Lean Meta-skills (more)

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Functional Programming is when functions, not objects or procedures, are the fundamental building blocks of a program. (more)

product management tool with emphasis on north-star metric and other metrics https://doubleloop.app/ aka DoubleLoop.app

Twilio (IPO 2016), Slack.com (IPO 2019, acquired 2020), Asana (IPO 2020), and Atlassian (IPO 2015) all lose money? (more)

Miro is laying off 275. After laying off 119 last year. (more)

first part of s-curve of growth

Ash Maurya tool for defining your startup roadmap based on a handful of meaninful traction metrics (AARRR). https://www.leanfoundry.com/tools/traction-roadmap

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Ash Maurya: Do You Really Have Product/Market Fit? The reason it’s critical to determine whether a given product is pre-PMF or post-PMF is because there is a marked flip in 80/20 focus after this transition — from getting the product right to growing the product. (more)

[Dario Amodei]] on Machines of Loving Grace (more)

Ash Maurya: The Early Adopter Paradox When you try to market to everyone, you reach no one. This is why you should start with early adopters. “Niche,” “beachhead market,” and “ideal customer profile (ICP)” are all synonyms of early adopters. This is sound advice. But, when defining early adopters, it’s easy to stack a bunch of defining traits because you’re trying to narrow down on a smaller sub-segment of your ideal customers. (more)

Ash Maurya: 10X your odds of success with shorter and better feedback loops. I averaged about two years between ideas, which is the typical time window to achieve product/market fit. (more)

Ash Maurya: As a founder, you are Investor #1 in your startup. As a founder, you are Investor #1 in your startup. And, you need to be even harsher on your numbers than a professional investor. (more)

It's not the same for all of them. But the point is, despite all the business books (case study), most have just 1 Golden Goose (ok maybe 2): a key capability, or a key decision. (more)

Peter Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business, from The Essential Drucker. (more)

There are 3 Games of Product Management, and each of these has variations based on the context. (more)

Craig Mod on New York City. Blossoms in the Big Apple (more)